People Quotes
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I think a lot of singers are shy people. I suppose singing on stage is not like talking; you are not as exposed.
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Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
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I love going on book tours because it's an opportunity to connect with the people that matter most to my brand.
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Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear.
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I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren't paying attention to me, to now I've got their attention. It's up to me to what I feed them with my music. It's up to me how I do that. I've put a lot of thought into how great the songs are, and how I want people to perceive me.
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The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
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I have no doubt, if people are really seeking the big questions, it will lead them to the Lord.
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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
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I think I made $55 a week, and it was bliss... I was doing theater. It was all I ever wanted to do. It was so much fun, and you got paid for it, and you met people, and it's the greatest education in the world. And in my little Greenbrier station wagon, I felt very much like a troubadour.
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I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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We exist in a culture where trans people are constantly delegitimized.
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Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.
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… I really hate big laptops. I can't understand people who lug around 15' (or 17'!) monsters. The right weight for a laptop is 1kg, no more.
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I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.
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I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible.
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Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.
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I don't feel like I've ever kissed any of the people I have done for acting. That moment didn't exist for you; it existed for that person.
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There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!
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There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.
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Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened.
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A name change has a rippling effect on the people who have to change their address, ... The first thing we have to do is get the affected neighbors and have a meeting to let them know what's going on.
